50 Years Progress (1960)

Item title reads - 50 years progress - Labour Exchanges. Marylebone, London. Various shots of the exterior of the new Labour Exchange at Lisson Grove, Marylebone. M/S of the entrance and a man looking at the employment notices on the board. C/U of the vacancies advertised. M/S interior of the Minister of Labour, The Right Honourable Edward Heath, standing at counter watching man being interviewed. M/S Heath, camera pans to man being interviewed. C/U notice - ’Ministry of Labour 1910-1960’. Montage of library shots show old Labour Exchange with big queue, and high unemployment. C/U sign ’no men wanted’. M/S men queuing, various shots of slum streets. M/S closed shipyards. Various shots of marches to demonstrate against high unemployment. M/S Ernest Bevin. L/S demonstrations. M/S George Lansbury making speech. M/S’s of police and demonstrators fighting, a man is arrested and marches down the street. C/U 10 Downing Street. M/S as Jimmy Maxton leads a delegation there. M/S of group talking to Prim